Archive for April, 2008

Caution For All Bloggers [Humor]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Here’s some phrases that should be known for all active bloggers out there as warning. Including :

Do not take pizza, soda, or candy at regular intervals while operating this computer.

Do you really need to check your email yet again?

Blogging your pregnancy can harm baby later in life.

And the #1 caution of them all is

Google Adsense may not provide the unlimited riches you hoped for.

Warning Label for Blogger [via GeekCulture]

Manage your RSS Reader Effectively [Lifehack]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

If you want to keep updated to your favorite blog, then a RSS Reader is a must. You add subscription to one blog, and one blog and one blog and then you find your RSS Reader with 1000+ items everyday. You feel that you’re wasting time reading the subscription, but there’s something inside you feeling left out if you’re not updated. There’s are some tips to manage your subscription in any RSS Reader, including Oversubscribed.

don’t know why people feel obligated to read every item in every feed they’ve subscribed to. Get over that and you’ll already be a far happier person. Many people say they find relief knowing that with enough subscriptions, anything important that they missed will come up again later. Other people oversubscribe and then just read “watchlists” - searches for keywords inside their subscribed feeds.

Yes, you may feel overwhelmed by RSS Reader, especially on Mondays. However, with a correct attitude toward reading, you’ll never miss anymore information available on your favorite subscriptions.

Making The Most of RSS Reader [via ReadWriteWeb]

Be a Stealr Commenter [Blogging]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Com’ ment`er n. 1. One who makes or writes comments; a commentator; an annotator.

I sometimes do the blogwalking and left some comments in another blogger’s blog. By the time, I visited my 20th something blog, I can’t even remember what comment I left on the first blog. If you cannot remember what comment you left in another person blog, how can the owner even remember your comment among many?

From now on i’m trying to be a Stealr Commenter on other blog. That’s a phrase i come up on my head to describe comments that can steal attention from the original blog (like movie’s scene stealer). Remember Rachel Maryam in Arisan?). How you do it? Well, I can think one or two things.

  1. Add another missing angle from the original post. Have some facts to back it up and not just your opinion.
  2. Single sentence is illegal. Write at least two or more lines and not some alternative of premium. Don’t make comment at all if you only need to left your fingerprint in someone else’s blog.
  3. Write something different. A poem, something funny, something weird, writing that so in-your-face but still relevant to the post.

Today, a simple comment, tomorrow, a 400 pages books (with 1600 simple comment) =D.

Avoid This when Changing your Habit [Lifehack]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I have many, many attempts to change my habits. I try to make a habit of wake up early, exercise regularly and even eating healthy food. There’s a lot of failure and many self loathing, but on every failure there’s always a lesson to learned. Zenhabit collect 13 things you should avoid when you try to change your habit, including my favorite :

Changing focus too soon. Often we’ll start a habit change, and within a week or two change our focus to something else. Well, the habit probably isn’t firmly ingrained by then, and so we’ve wasted all that time trying to form a new habit and then abandoning it before it’s on autopilot. Instead, stick to this habit for at least 30 days, and be consistent as possible.

In order to become a habit, someone must do at least 21 30 days of those repetitive tasks. If not, there’s a big chances that you will become the old you again. If you know what to avoid, the chances of failing hopefully become smaller.

13 Things to Avoid [via Zenhabit]

Think different [Inspiration]

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

This is an old ads from Mac’s Think Different called “Here’s to the crazy one”. The narrator is Richard Dreyfuss and it features some of brilliant and inspirational people, such as :
Albert Einstein, smoking a pipe
Bob Dylan, moving to his harmonica
Martin Luther King, at the end of his Washington speech
Richard Branson, shaking champagne
John Lennon and Yoko Ono singing
Buckminster Fuller demonstrating the Bucky Ball
Thomas Edison thinking
Mohammed Ali dancing for the press
Ted Turner boxing the air with a smile
Maria Callas blowing a kiss
Mahatma Gandhi smiling
Amelia Earhart arriving
Alfred Hitchcock speaking
Martha Graham dancing
Jim Henson puppeteering
Frank Lloyd Wright walking by his home
Picasso painting
A child dreaming

The narration is as follows :
Here’s to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
But the only thing that you can’t do, is ignore them.
Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or, sit in silence and hear a song that hasn’t been written?
Or, gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world,
are the ones who do.

Are you crazy enough to change the world?

Think Different [via Youtube]

the origin of w00t [Wikiaha!]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Of uncertain origin, it seems to have been derived from the obsolete ‘whoot’ which essentially is another way to say ‘hoot’ which itself is a shout or derisive laugh. Other sources suggest that it might be a corruption of root, shouted by hackers when they obtain root-level access in a targeted system. Still others suggest a portmanteau of wow and loot, as might be uttered in (for example) online gaming when a cache of treasure or another valuable item is discovered.

w00t!

  1. (Internet slang) Used to express joy, particularly that felt during success or victory.
    w00t I’ve won this special item.

Just to make sure It’s not alphabet O it’s a zero, like w00t!

w00t [via wiktionary]

Create your own cd case with paper [Lifehack]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

You were finishing your music CD filled with your favorite tracks when you suddenly remember that you didn’t have any cd case or all your cd case were already full. Or you want to create a compilation CD for your friend as a gift? Check out these two simple Do-it-Yourself ways to create your own CD CASE. All you need is a piece of paper (used or new) and you’re ready to roll.

CD Paper Case [via Instructables]
CD Paper Case 2 [via Instructables]

Store your username and password using Keepass [Hot Application]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

If you joined a lot of internet services like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Friendster, Facebook or Myspace, you will definitely need Keepass to store your username and password. Unless of course you have a photographic memory that can restore all your login and password for your internet services or you keep a universal username and password for all of that accounts.

Keepass is easy to use and it comes in portable solution as well. Keepass let you remember only one master password instead of several or more passwords that you create for your login to above services. Yes, once someone know your master password, you will be exposed completely, but that’s why you must make the master password as long and varied as you can and remember that sole password only.
You can easily copy the username and password to clipboard using keepass and no need to type it again and again and again.

Oh yeah, keepass is free.

Keepass